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RIM sees surprising growth in subscribers

article published on 26 September, 2012

RIM announced a surprise jump in subscriber numbers this week, giving investors a little bit of hope before next year's launch of the BlackBerry 10 operating system. The company had a developer event yesterday to show off some new features of the operating system and proudly boasted that subscribers jumped to 80 million from the previously reported 78 million. Although RIM has practically ... [ read the full article ]

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molsen
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_ 		26. September 2012 @ 14:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yawn..... Middle to late January BB10 is pushed back again. Still want to make it perfect before release.....
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bloke2000
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_ 		26. September 2012 @ 17:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I wouldn't be surprised if BlackBerry have a come back in a year or two. Kids today are going for BlackBerry more and more, it may just be that the problems RIM see today that make their product more accessible to the younger generation could be their success tomorrow (not literally tomorrow ;-))
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xtago
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_ 		27. September 2012 @ 02:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Probably all the marketing done in Australia over the last 6 months.
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mumra1st
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_ 		28. September 2012 @ 21:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
"marginally successful in emerging markets" doesn't obviously mean the Asian markets where RIM has 80% of the market or 4 out of 5 phones are a Blackberry. You would think the writers were paid by Apple or Samsung. I do see one growing trend here and that is with the middle school kids demanding Blackberry so they can message. Apple may have made a tactical error with new phone requiring all new peripherals. hmm
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